USDA Agricultural Research Service
December 17, 2010
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How foot-and-mouth gets its first foothold:
ARS scientists have identified the primary site where the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease begins infection in cattle-in the epithelial cells in the nasopharynx, a specific region of the back of the cow's throat. (12/13)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/101213.htm
We're dreaming of a wasp-free Christmas:
Hawaiians can now worry less about finding stray yellowjackets living in their Christmas trees shipped from the mainland United States, partly due to research by an ARS entomologist and his university and state cooperators. (12/14)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/101214.htm
Safer catfish and tilapia fillets:
An ARS food microbiologist is exploring the effectiveness of technologies such as ionizing radiation and UV light to combat pathogens such as Listeria and Shigella in catfish or tilapia fillets, the two most widely consumed fish fillets in the United States. (12/15)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/101215.htm
The hottest news about honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder:
ARS and USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture have released the 2010 Colony Collapse Disorder Progress Report highlighting current research by federal agencies, state departments of agriculture, universities and private organizations on this still mysterious disease affecting the nation's honey bees. (12/17)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/101217.htm
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